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EDITORIAL BOARDPATRON

Thiru.P.Sachithanandan, Avl., Correspondent

EDITORIAL IN CHIEF

Dr. N. Raman M.B.A., M.Com., M.Phil., B.Ed., P.G.D.C.A., Ph.D., Principal

STAFF ADVISOR

Prof. P. Ramesh M.Sc., M.Phil, HOD

STAFF EDITOR

Mr.R.Sundar Raj, M.C.A., Assistant Professor

STUDENT EDTITORS

S.ManiBharathi III – B.Sc. (CS)-A

D.Boobalan III – B.Sc. (CS)-B

P.W.Joe Alfred III – B.Sc. (CS)-C

S.Santhoshkumar III – B.Sc. (CS)-C

S.Suganesh III – B.Sc. (CS)-C

P.Anandha Raj II – B.Sc. (CS)-A

D.HariKrishnan II – B.Sc. (CS)-A

A.Nandhini II – B.Sc. (CS)-B

S.DineshBalaji II – B.Sc. (CS)-C

G.Sridhar I – B.Sc. (CS)-A

G.Harinitha I – B.Sc. (CS)-B

N.MeenaPriya I – B.Sc. (CS)-C

CONTENT

TOPIC PAGE No.

1. INTERVIEW PEDIA 1

2. THIS NEW GLASS CAN DOUBLE YOUR

SMARTPHONE’S BATTERY LIFE 3

3. APPLE, GOOGLE: IS SILICON VALLEY THE

FUTURE OF CAR INDUSTRY 5

4. FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE'S RACE TO BRING

THE WEB TO THE DEVELOPING WORLD 7

5. GOOGLE TO RANK SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON

ACCURACY OF WEB PAGES 9

6. FACEBOOK ENGINEERS CAN ACCESS YOUR

ACCOUNT WITHOUT A PASSWORD 11

7. THE REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY OF AUGMENTED

REALITY FROM MICROSOFT 13

8. U.S. WATCHDOG CHAIRMAN DEFENDS NEW

BROADBAND REGULATIONS 15

9. CYBERSECURITY COMPANY NOVETTA SOLUTIONS

UP FOR SALE – SOURCES 17

10.APPLE EXPLORING SETTLEMENT WITH ELECTRIC

CAR BATTERY MAKER 19

11.TRAI ASKS VODAFONE TO STOP USING 111 FOR

CUSTOMER SERVICES 21

12.FAMOUS AND FAVOURITE 23

13.MIND PUNCH 24

14.IT VITA 26

15.SOLUTIONS 27

INTERVIEW PEDIA

PART- 2Aptitude tests are structured systematic ways of evaluating how people perform on tasks

or react to different situations. They have standardized methods of administration and scoringwith the results quantified and compared with how others have done at the same tests. Theyare increasingly administered on a computer. These may include the following topics:

Numerical Reasoning along with Graphs and Tables Letter Sequences (logical reasoning) Non-Verbal Reasoning Verbal Reasoning along with synonyms and antonyms) Verbal Logic Test Computer Aptitude Test Vocabulary Test Homonyms Test Spelling and punctuation test for applications not strictly a psychometric test, but will

help with verbal skills. Lateral (Creative) Thinking Quiz Second Lateral Thinking Test Riddles: another way of Lateral Thinking Harder riddles Lateral Logical Mathematical Test Teamwork Styles Leadership Styles etc.,

Out of which we have clearly discussed about the introduction of Numerical Reasoningin the last issue.

We are going to still continue on the same. Here are some more tips….

INTERVIEW PEDIA







INTERVIEW PEDIA







Understand the questions

If you practice some *Psychometric aptitude tests, you will see for yourself how easy it isto be caught out by not reading the question properly. This includes not recognizing the units,not seeing the applicability of a graph or table (e.g. dates), and making assumptions aboutimplied meaning. It is worth re-reading the question after you have answered it to check you haveunderstood it since this will take a split second but will prevent you from throwing away the timespent on that question.

Note: *Psychometrics is the field of study concerned with the theory and technique ofpsychological measurement with the objective measurement of skills and knowledge, abilities,attitudes, personality traits, and educational achievement.

Use the rough paper

In most psychometric aptitude tests you will beallowed to use rough paper for your working. Sensible use ofthis will cut down mistakes and save you time if you have togo back to a mid-point in a calculation. Writing things downalso helps you spot mistakes with units, which are all toocommon if you do all the work on your calculator.Sometimes, the working for one question will be required inthe working for the next question, so if you already have itwritten down, you don’t have to repeat that part of the calculation.

Consider only the options available

This applies to numerical reasoning tests only, sincethe most common form of verbal reasoning tests only everhave three options; True, False and Cannot say. In ratioquestions particularly (e.g. what is the ratio of A:B:C:D) youmight not have to calculate all of A, B, C and D. If you'vecalculated A and B and you can see that only one of theoptions available is your answer for A:B then click that one and move on! This is a good time-saving technique.

Come over the test of ‘Aptitude’ with a positive ‘Attitude’. Meet you all in the next issue.All the best!

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THIS NEW GLASS CAN DOUBLE YOUR SMARTPHONE’SBATTERY LIFE

Researchers have discovered a new type of glass material that may be used as anelectrode in lithium-ion batteries to almost double a Smartphone’s battery life.

Researchers have discovered a new type of glass material that may be used as anelectrode in lithium-ion batteries to almost double a Smartphone’s battery life. Amaterial discovered by ETH Zurich researchers led by Dr Semih Afyon and ReinhardNesper may have the potential to double battery capacity. Researchers are using theVanadate-borate glass as a cathode material. It is made of vanadium oxide (V2O5) andlithium-borate (LiBO2) precursors, and was coated with reduced graphite oxide (RGO)to enhance the electrode properties of the material. They used a vanadium-basedcompound because vanadium is a transition metal with various oxidation states, whichcan be exploited to reach higher capacities. To produce the cathode material, Afyon andhis colleagues blended powdered vanadium pentoxide with borate compounds.







Borate is a glass former; that's why the borate compounds were used, and theresulting glass compound is a new kind of material, neither V2O5 nor LiBO2 at the end.The scientists melted the powder at 900 degrees Celsius and cooled the melt as quicklyas possible to form glass. The resulting paper-thin sheets were then crushed into apowder before use, as this increases their surface area and creates pore space.

One major advantage of vanadate-borate glass is that it is simple and inexpensiveto manufacture. This is expected to increase the chance of finding an industrialapplication. To produce an efficient electrode, the researcher coated the vanadate-boratepowder with reduced graphite oxide (RGO). This increases conductivity while at thesame time protecting the electrode particles.

One battery with an RGO-coated vanadate-borate glass electrode exhibited anenergy density of around 1000 watt-hours per kg.

It achieved a discharge capacity that far exceeded 300mAh/g. Initially, this figureeven reached 400mAh/g, but dropped over the course of the charge/discharge cycles."This would be enough energy to power a mobile phone between 1.5 and two timeslonger than today's lithium-ion batteries.









APPLE, GOOGLE: IS SILICON VALLEY THE FUTURE OFCAR INDUSTRY

Google's self-driving vehicles, in the guise of various car models, have alreadyhave driven hundreds of thousands of miles on California roads in test runs. Is the futureof the US car industry in Silicon Valley? After Tesla and Google, Apple appears to bereadying for a plunge into the industry long rooted far away in the steel belt of the USupperMidwest.

According to various media reports, the maker of phones and I pads has created aspecial unit baptized "Titan" with hundreds of staff to begin developing an electric car,with 2020 the target date. Apple remains silent on the project, but the reports werepartially backed up by a lawsuit filed against the tech giant. Battery maker 123 Systemshas accused Apple of aggressively poaching its staff. But it puts Apple in line withTesla, the current champion of the electric car, and Google, the online giant which isfocused on the self-driving, also-electric Google Car. The big three US automakers —General Motors, Ford and Chrysler (now a part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, FCA) —are taking the threat from the Detroit outsiders seriously. Given the company's (Apple's)tremendous capabilities, that is no surprise to anyone.

Ford too had no comment on Apple's plans, but the number two automakerrecently opened a research center in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley, as it looks tothe future of self-driving automobiles. Bill Visnic, an analyst at industry specialistEdmunds.com, said that given the seven-year average time frame to develop and bring acar to the mass market, the Detroit giants are not under serious pressure yet.









Even with the unexpected success of Tesla, for instance, the company still soldless than 35,000 cars last year in a national market of more than 16 million units. AndTesla's cars are confined to a very high-end niche market. Apple is not an immediatethreat to the US auto industry. I don't think you'll see the volume there, the number ofcars won't really begin to approach anything like Detroit is making right now at any timesoon. A market analyst at Kelley Blue Book, said Apple's strength is its role as a"disruptor" in industries, and that the "comprehensive ecosystem" of its popularconsumer electronics could be extended to an "Apple car".Apple has the money to put into a new car — some $180 billion in capital built up toinvest in new projects. Even so, said Gutierrez, given the costs and competition in theauto industry, "it's fraught with risk."

The automotive space is so highly competitive today, and margins in new car salesare extraordinarily thin, which is something Apple is not used to. It's a tough thing andit's very expensive, added Brett Smith, programmer director at the Center forAutomotive Research. He pointed to Tesla continuing to lose money despite its successin marketing its luxury cars with battery systems superior to any offered by Detroit. Andthe major automakers are all working hard on making more and better hybrid and all-electric vehicles. That sets a high bar for any new entrant, notes Smith.

Apple already has something to offer the industry, notes Visnic. It could become akey supplier of connectivity technology for cars, putting its operating systems up againstGoogle's Android, already being installed in many car models.For Apple, they have proven to be phenomenally good at user experience. The car forthem will become another user experience device, and that will differentiate them.







FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE'S RACE TO BRING THEWEB TO THE DEVELOPING WORLD

Mobile World Congress, a tech industry confab held annually in Barcelona,typically revolves around the newest gadgets and services bound for the world’swealthiest countries. At this year’s conference, which ran March 2-5, Google andFacebook spent much stage time focusing on the other end of the market. Each companyhas a plan to radically boost the number of people using its services by delivering orlowering the cost of Internet access for the billions who aren’t online.

In an on-stage interview with Bloomberg Business week, Sundar Pichai, Google’ssenior vice president of products, laid out new details of Project Loon, the company’soutlandish-sounding plan to provide wireless connectivity via hot-air balloons. Eachhelium-filled balloon will carry a solar-powered LTE antenna and is designed to hover atthe edge of the atmosphere, beaming down wireless signals. The balloons are eachdesigned to provide Internet access to an area about the size of Rhode Island, so withenough of them working in tandem, the company will be able to eliminate the need forcostly cell towers in the developing world, says Pichai.

Three years ago, when the project began, Google’s “cell towers in the sky” stayedaloft for less than a week and could provide only 3G signals on a good day. Today,Pichai says, they average more than six months in the air and keep nearby smartphonesoperating at 4G or LTE speeds, around 10 megabits per second. “We are well on ourway to a platform that, by the end of the decade, will touch 4 to 5 billion people,” hesays.

The balloons cost tens of thousands of dollars apiece, according to Pichai,compared with millions of dollars for a satellite with comparable range.











Google says it’s testing them with carriers such as Vodafone in New Zealand andTelefonica in South America, but it wouldn’t estimate when they’ll be ready for thecarriers to deploy more broadly. Project engineers are still refining algorithms to accountfor such factors as wind, and the company doesn’t want to launch a network of balloonsuntil it’s sure they’re ready, says Loon chief Mike Cassidy. “We want it to be the realfull-speed, full-color Internet.

Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps at Google Inc.,speaks during a keynote session at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, onMonday, March 2, 2015. Pichai also talked about the drone planes Google is developingto supplement the balloons’ wireless coverage. He says Titan Aerospace, the maker ofsolar-powered, high-altitude drones that Google acquired last year, will start testing itswireless-providing aircraft in the next few months. The idea is that the drone planes willprovide Internet access in disaster areas to aid rescue operations or merely boostcapacity in high-demand areas.

In some emerging markets, Facebook and Google face stiff competition fromregional apps such as China’s WeChat and Baidu. As they try to expand overseas, bothZuckerberg and Pichai say they’re amenable to pooling resources. Google’s searchengine is one of the basic Internet.org services, which Pichai says makes him “veryexcited.” Zuckerberg said of Google, “We would love to do more with them.”







GOOGLE TO RANK SEARCH RESULTS BASED ONACCURACY OF WEB PAGES

Google wants to rank internet pages based on the quality of the facts they contain.A new paper published by a group of software engineers suggests that the internet searchgiant may be preparing to change the algorithms it uses to scour the web. Currentlysearches appear according to a complex combination of key words and links with otherwebsites, but this fails to weed out inaccurate information.

If implemented it could mean that currently popular sources that regularly getfacts wrong could fall foul of the new search technique. Not one to be outdone by itsrivals, Google is reportedly working on a mobile payment service called AndroidPay. The firm is expected to officially announce the service at its developer conferencelater this year.It will create a way for companies to accept transactions through theirapps without having to introduce their own individual payment services.

Android Pay users will then be able to upload credit card or debit card informationto a single secure location but use it to pay for items across apps. And customers will beable to use it to pay for in-app purchases, goods or services with a single tap.

Google is also expected to allow companies to use its Android Pay API to enabletap-to-pay options in physical stores using NFC readers, for example. In a paper to bepublished in the Proceedings of the Very Large Database Endowment, the Googleresearchers said WebPages would be allocated trustworthiness scores.

Quality assessment for web sources is of tremendous importance in web search. Ithas been traditionally evaluated using exogenous signals such as hyperlinks andbrowsing history. For example, the gossip websites listed (see image below) mostly havehigh Page Rank scores, but would not generally be considered reliable.













Conversely, some less popular websites nevertheless have very accurateinformation. We address the fundamental question of estimating how trustworthy agiven web source is. Informally, we define the trustworthiness or accuracy of a websource as the probability that it contains the correct value for a fact (such as BarackObama's nationality), assuming that it mentions any value for that fact.

Currently web searches are ranked by, among other things, the number ofincoming links to a page to help Google's search bots determine the quality of the link.This, however, is really only a measure of the popularity of a webpage rather than theaccuracy of the information it contains.

Google researchers have developed a new algorithm that looks for facts andinaccuracies on web pages. WebPages containing inaccurate information can be widelyshared and linked to by blogs and other external sites, causing them to feature high up inGoogle search results. They use a system they have called Knowledge-Based Trust,which pulls facts from many pages and then jointly estimates the correctness andaccuracy of these. It then counts the number of incorrect facts on a page to give it a trustscore. To help the software the team has developed draws on Google's fast KnowledgeVault - a store of facts that have been pulled off the internet and are unanimously agreedon as being true.







FACEBOOK ENGINEERS CAN ACCESS YOURACCOUNT WITHOUT A PASSWORD

Facebook’s zero tolerance policy – protection enough?

Well, of course, they can do that, you say. But it’s not something people think ofevery time they log into Facebook. And with Facebook used as a way to log into somany other sites these days, a whole new level of security vulnerability presents itself.

After the story got attention from Siljamäki’s legion of fans, a Facebook employee(see below) took the time to make comment in such a way that did not deny this access.Instead, it justified the access as being limited and used only by those who have a strictneed to use it. Additionally, they claim there are bi-weekly audits of access logs.

Against their own terms

The Facebook engineer who accessed Paavo Siljamäki’s account violated theterms of service, nowhere in which is it outlined situations under which Facebook itselfmight go into the accounts of its users. One thing it does say, however, is that you’re notallowed to use other people’s Facebook accounts or allow others to use your account.You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.













You will not share your password (or in the case of developers, your secret key),let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize thesecurity of your account. The terms don’t exempt Facebook employees. So, even thoughFacebook appears to have an extensive internal policy covering these activities, and mayeven take it seriously, the Facebook accounts of all the people who’ve done this shouldbe disabled.

Beyond Facebook

The time has come for decentralized social networking to replace the Facebookhegemony on identity. This company makes billions by trafficking in the data onchildren as young as thirteen. People have become the product, in many casesunwittingly. People always point to the fact that these things are governed by terms ofservice, but that doesn’t go far enough.

This case is an example of an action Facebook allows itself to take which is notexpressly obvious to users. A jilted lover who happens to be a Facebook engineer coulddo a great deal of damage to his or her ex-lover’s life before getting fired, and that’s justone situation which seems realistically possible.

At the very least, the actual access should be evident to the user. We canreasonably expect that if the government wants to know what’s going on in ourFacebook accounts, they will.

But an engineer with this level of access could in good faith be fooled by someonewho is simply social engineering, pretending to be someone they are not, and in somecases the damage can be irreversible.


Beyond Facebook






Beyond Facebook





THE REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY OF AUGMENTED

REALITY FROM MICROSOFT

Microsoft has created an augmented reality glasses Hololens, that terrific wayallow the connection a images the virtual world and the real one. The device is calledHololens – autonomous wearable computer, which takes the form of points withtranslucent glass.

Through this device user can connect the virtual world and the real, which giveshim the opportunity, previously known only through science fiction movie.

The device has its own CPU and GPU, as well as a kind of holographic processor,which is responsible for real-time processing of digital images that appear on the displaywith voice acting.

In its work, glasses Hololens create three-dimensional high-definition video,which you can either watch alone or impose on any object in reality. This greatlyincreases the chances of the user in virtually all areas of multimedia activities.













The device can be used for work, including design and, when communicating onSkype, surfing the pages on the Internet, video games, watching online television,education, exchange of ideas and many other fields.

Controls the ability of a glasses Hololens possible by means of voice, a turningyour head, as well as computers and peripherals. HoloLens does not depend of othergadgets. The unit does not need to be synchronized with the tablet, Smartphone or PC.

Microsoft has collaborated with the space agency NASA. Under this the spaceagency has created a special software for holographic glasses, which helps scientistsvisually explore the surface of Mars. NASA engineers will be able to see through theeyes of the rover to the Red Planet and fully assess the situation.While the technology is still in development, but its capabilities are impressive.

As for its availability wide range of users, Microsoft promises, that HoloLens willbe on sale the end of the life cycle of Windows 10, which is approximately 5 years.









U.S. WATCHDOG CHAIRMAN DEFENDS NEWBROADBAND REGULATIONS

New rules to tighten regulation of U.S. broadband providers are not too invasiveand are needed to defend consumers' interests and openness on the internet, the chairmanof the U.S. telecommunications industry watchdog said on Tuesday.

Some telecom and cable companies exaggerated when they complained the moveswould harm them or cripple innovation on the web, Tom Wheeler, the head of the U.S.Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said at the Mobile World Congress inBarcelona.

U.S. regulators approved the strictest-ever rules on internet providers, who in turnpledged to battle the new restrictions in the courts and Congress, saying they woulddiscourage investment and stifle innovation. [ID:nL1N0W01V2]

The new policy reclassifies broadband, both fixed and mobile, as a more heavilyregulated "telecommunications service", more like a traditional telephone service. Therules aimed to protect "net neutrality, referring to the concept that all traffic on theinternet must be treated equally regardless of content or source.

"One of the tragedies" of the debate has been people invoking "imaginaryhorrible”, adds that the FCC would not interfere in telecom or cable groups' businesses.There are only four rules in here, plus the yardstick for us to judge what is just andreasonable.

There are no broad strokes ordering companies on how to do things. We wantnetwork operators to be as innovative as possible, and have revenue streams fromconsumer services that are unchanged so they can invest and build better networks.Wheeler said the FCC would look at issues on a case-by-case basis, acting as a referee toensure that the internet remained open and free.















Internet providers will be banned from blocking or slowing any traffic and fromstriking deals with content companies, known as paid prioritization, for smootherdelivery of traffic to consumers. But telecom and cable groups will still be able to setaside capacity for so-called "specialized services" - providing connectivity to a smartmeter or connected car for example - as long as they do not disadvantage normal internetservices for homes and businesses.

That exception is important to industry because they think such services could oneday be a big earner as everyday objects are increasingly connected to the web.Europeanpolicy makers are working on a net neutrality law as well, which could be finalized thisspring. The chief executives of Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) haveurged a similar pragmatic, flexible approach to "specialized services" as the FCC.

The European Parliament, which passed net neutrality rules last April and arebeing negotiated with member states, tried to build in protections to ensure thatspecialized services do not become a loophole for industry to exploit. But those arelikely to be watered down in the final version of the law, experts say, under pressurefrom industry.

"We will hold for the first time in the world an incentive auction in which we seekto buy back 600 megahertz spectrum from broadcasters and repackage it to sell to thewireless industry," he said.









CYBERSECURITY COMPANY NOVETTA SOLUTIONS UPFOR SALE – SOURCES

Novetta Solutions LLC, a provider of software and IT services to the U.S.intelligence community, is exploring a sale which could value it at more than $650million, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.

Novetta's sale process comes as cuts in U.S. government spending, particularly inthe areas of defense and security, have hit companies that rely on government contracts,spurring consolidation in the industry.

Arlington Capital Partners, Novetta's private equity owner, has hired investmentbanks Morgan Stanley (MS.N) and Houlihan Lokey on an auction for the company, thepeople said this week.

Novetta has annual earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation ofbetween $40 million and $50 million, the people added.











The sources asked not to be identified because the sale process is not public.Representatives for Novetta, Arlington Capital Partners, Morgan Stanley and HoulihanLokey declined to comment.McLean, Virginia-based Novetta offers data analyticsservices to government clients working with large sets of data.

Its customers include national intelligence agencies, the U.S. Department ofDefense and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Technology companies

Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N) and IBM Corp (IBM.N),

as well as defence contractors such as

Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N), Raytheon Co (RTN.N) and General Dynamics Corp (GD.N), could show interest in Novetta, according to the

sources.

Representatives from General Dynamics, Hewlett-Packard, Lockheed Martin, andIBM declined to comment. Raytheon did not respond to a request for comment.

A deal for Novetta would be just the latest example of a private equity firm sellinga government services portfolio company.

Last month, government services contractor Engility Holdings Inc (EGL.N),acquired TASC, a provider of professional services to government agencies for $1.3billion.

TASC was controlled by affiliates of the private equity firms KKR & Co LP(KKR.N) and General Atlantic LLC.

Science Applications International Corp (SAIC.N) a provider of informationtechnology and engineering services to governments said it would acquire Scitor Corp, asmaller peer, for $790 million.

Scitor is owned by private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners LP.







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APPLE EXPLORING SETTLEMENT WITH ELECTRIC CAR BATTERYMAKER

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is discussing a settlement in a lawsuit brought by electric carbattery maker A123 Systems, which accused the iPhone maker of poaching topengineers to build a large-scale battery division.

Apple is exploring how to make an electric car and has been hiring engineers withdeep expertise in automobile systems. Around June 2014 Apple began aggressivelypoaching A123 engineers tasked with leading some of the company's most criticalprojects, A123's lawsuit said.

In a court filing on Tuesday, Apple asked a Massachusetts federal judge for anextension of time to respond to the A123 lawsuit because "they are exploring potentialresolution."

Representatives for Apple and A123 could not immediately be reached forcomment. A123 filed the breach of contract lawsuit in February against Apple and fiveformer A123 employees.











Trying to build an actual car would mark a dramatic shift for the maker of the iPhoneand iPad. Apple often researches projects which are then discarded, but has so far mainlystuck to its core expertise in mobile and electronic devices.

A123 Systems is a pioneering industrial lithium-ion battery maker, which was backed bya $249 million U.S. government grant. It filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and has beenselling off assets.

Lithium-ion is a battery technology that can be used in applications fromcomputers to airplanes, but A123 specializes in big batteries that can be used in bigmachines, including cars. A123 did not say what specifically the engineers worked on.

The case in U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts is A123 Systems LLCvs. Apple Inc et al., 15-10438.









TRAI ASKS VODAFONE TO STOP USING 111 FOR CUSTOMERSERVICES

Sector regulator Trai today directed Vodafone to stop using '111' for offeringcustomer care services, as it violates the national numbering plan, and submit acompliance report by March 10.

In a direction to Vodafone, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) saidthat Department of Telecom had issued the national numbering plan 2003 wherein thenumber 111 to 115 have not been allocated for any type of services and have been keptas 'spare'.

However, the authority said it observed from the advertisement on the website ofVodafone that customers were being urged to call '111' to get internet settings on theirhandset for pre-paid data offers, postpaid 3G data packs, self help for data services,Blackberry internet offers and to find out the balance.

"Now therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it... the Authorityhereby directs Vodafone India to discontinue use of level '111' and submit compliancereport latest by March 10," Trai said.











The Authority had issued a show cause notice on February 2 to Vodafone forviolation of the national numbering plan.

In reply to the notice on February 18, Vodafone had stated that '111' number hadbeen in use by them for the last 18-20 years and that they were in genuine belief thatthere was no restriction in its use as the number was already under valid use prior to2003 as a common customer care number across all the circles.

Vodafone had added that they have been transparently filing their annualcompliance with the Authority in regards to the use of this level for their customer helpservices since 2007.

However, after examining the reply of Vodafone, Trai is of the view that "byusing level '111' without the permission of the licensor, the service provider hascontravened the national numbering plan and filing annual compliance report to theregulations of the Authority cannot be treated as authorisation to use level '111'."









FAMOUS AND FAVOURITE

Vishalini, The World’s Youngest MCP and CCNA World Record by Eleven-year-old INDIAN girl who has exceptionally highest IQ in the world

Born in Thirunelveli, a small city of Tamil Nadu, to an electrician father, Vishaliniis no different than other children of her age who love watching cartons, riding bicycleand playing games; however, her IQ and intelligence is not of an average 11-year-oldgirl. She is a child prodigy blessed with exceptional computer and analytical skills.According to reports, her IQ stands at 225, which are considerably higher than theprevious Guinness of world record holder, Kim Ung-Yong, whose IQ is approximately210. Her wonderful accomplishments include the Microsoft Certified Professional andCisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). By scoring 90 % in CCNA, Vishalini hasbroken the record of a Pakistani girl Agfa Karmic Randhawa (At the age 9, she was theyoungest MCP). Unfortunately, Agfa succumbed to a cardiac arrest on 14thof January last month; she was only 16.

Recently, she participated at an international seminar which was held at theNational Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Mangalore, where she was invitedas a guest speaker. It wasn’t the first time Vishalini addressed a strong tech gathering;several such offers and honors have become a part of her daily routine. She lecturesengineering students about the Technical fundamentals and computer intricacies.









MIND PUNCH

1. Hans is standing behind Gerri and at the same time Gerri is standingbehind Hans.The Question: How is this possible?

2. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

3. How many squares are there?

4. What’s full of holes but can still hold water?

5. I come in different shapes and sizes. Parts of me are curved, other parts arestraight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one right placefor me. What am I ?

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MIND PUNCH






6. I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I amessential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?

7. I am a word of five letters!People eat me!I am available in 2 colours.Remove my 1 letter, I will be a form of crime.Remove my first 2 letters, I will be name of animal.If you remove my first 4 letters, I am vowel.Guess my Name?

8. If you are in dark room with a candle, a wood and a gas stove. You onlyhave one match, so what do you light first?

9. Complete this grid with the digits 1 to 6 to make the sum correct.Perform each mathematical operation in the order shown, from left to right,e.g. 1 + 2 x 3 is treated as (1 + 2) x 3 = 9.Note: there is no ÷ 1, and at no point is a decimal or fraction used.

10. What is represented by this BrainBat?PUR

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IT VITA

1. Who developed QWERTY keyboard used in computer andphones?

2. Which operating system is developed and used by apple Inc?

3. Linus Thorvaldsen develops which is operating system?

4. First computer virus is known as?

5. Which is one programming language is exclusively used forartificial intelligence?

6. Firewall in computer is used for?

7. A dual blue-ray Disc can store data upto ?

8. Number of layers in the OSI[Open SystemInterconnection]model?

9. Bit is equal to how many byte?

10. Mac operating system is developed by which company?

11. In computer world, Trojan refer to?

12. Which protocol is used to send E-mail?

13. Which one is the latestone form from PARAM SuperSriescomputer?

14. A folder in windows computer cant’ be made with the name?

15. What is the maximum size of a word document created?

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IT VITA

1. Christopher LathamSholes.

2.ios

3.Linux

4.Creeper virus.

5.Prolog.

6.Security.

7.50GB.

8.7.

9.128Byte.

10.Apple.

11.Malware.

12.POP3.

13.PARAM YuvaII.

14.Con.

15.32MB.

MIND PUNCH

1. Hans is facing north and Gerri isfacing south so that they did faceeachother hence it is possible to standHans behind Gerri, at the same timeGerri is standing behind Hans.

2. A Stamp.

3. 16

4. Sponge

5. A Jigsaw puzzle piece

6. E

7. Grape

8. The match

9.

10. Crossed Purposes or DualPurposes

IT VITA


2.ios

3.Linux

4.Creeper virus.

5.Prolog.

6.Security.

7.50GB.

8.7.

9.128Byte.

10.Apple.

11.Malware.

12.POP3.

13.PARAM YuvaII.

14.Con.

15.32MB.

MIND PUNCH


2. A Stamp.

3. 16

4. Sponge


6. E

7. Grape

8. The match

9.


IT VITA


2.ios

3.Linux

4.Creeper virus.

5.Prolog.

6.Security.

7.50GB.

8.7.

9.128Byte.

10.Apple.

11.Malware.

12.POP3.

13.PARAM YuvaII.

14.Con.

15.32MB.

MIND PUNCH


2. A Stamp.

3. 16

4. Sponge


6. E

7. Grape

8. The match

9.


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The Editorial Board expresses

Its sincere gratitude to

All those who are responsible,

Either by being on the stage

Or behind the screen

For the successful launch

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